Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

- Hill, Christopher

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.